Official denies Marvel film is banned but says kingdom ‘still trying’ to get Disney to cut 12 seconds referring to lesbian character with two mothers Saudi Arabia has asked Disney to cut “LGBTQ references” from Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness before it can be screened in the kingdom, an official said on Monday […]
Fears death toll from Sunday’s clashes could rise after armed tribesmen attacked villages of non-Arab Massalit minority Clashes between rival groups in Sudan’s Darfur killed at least 168 people on Sunday, an aid group has said, in the latest bout of deadly violence to hit the restive region. Darfur, which was ravaged by civil war […]
Juan Orlando Hernández accused of involvement with drug cartels and related weapons charges US Drug Enforcement Administration agents have extradited the Honduran former president Juan Orlando Hernández to New York, where he will face federal drug trafficking and weapons charges. Honduran national police delivered a handcuffed Hernández to DEA agents at the Tegucigalpa airport just […]
Tax records from 2014 to 2018, analysed by ProPublica, show 25 Americans collectively earned $401bn but paid just $13.6bn Between 2014 and 2018, the 25 wealthiest Americans collectively earned $401bn, but paid just $13.6bn – about 3.4% of that – in taxes, according to a bombshell ProPublica investigation into the finances of the wealthiest Americans […]
Campaigners decry ‘broken system’ in Singapore that disproportionately punishes drug mules rather than those who coerce them into work A man with learning difficulties has been executed in Singapore for attempting to smuggle a small amount of heroin, despite repeated pleas for his life to be spared, in a case campaigners have described as a […]
Global investment firm Centricus is funding another British bid to buy Chelsea, saying it wants to “maintain and support existing management”. The Premier League club was put up for sale by Russian owner Roman Abramovich before he was sanctioned following his country’s invasion of Ukraine. This latest bid, backed by Centricus – which has £29bn […]
An 83-year-old Australian-Iranian imprisoned in Iran for more than two years on what his family said were false accusations of fraud has died. Shokrollah Jebeli died in Evin prison hospital in Tehran on Sunday, his son Peyman said. Amnesty International said his treatment in jail had in effect been torture. Iran has not commented. Mr […]
Nicaraguan opposition leader Cristiana Chamorro has been given an eight-year sentence after being found guilty of money-laundering. Ms Chamorro says the charges were politically motivated and designed to stop her from running in November’s election, which saw President Daniel Ortega win a fifth term in office. She was one of seven presidential hopefuls detained ahead […]
Russia’s most prominent opposition figure Alexei Navalny, has been found guilty in a fraud trial on charges rejected by supporters as fabricated. Navalny was jailed when he returned to the country last year, after surviving a poisoning he blames on the Kremlin. He was initially given three and a half years in a penal colony […]
Two women in their 50s have died after a violent attack at a secondary school in the southern Swedish city of Malmö, police say. An 18-year-old student at the school has been arrested on suspicion of murder. Local media report that he was armed with a knife and an axe, though police are yet to […]